Press release:

Kansas City, MO, July 31, 2007 Since the Postal Service began permitting consumers to design their own stamps in 2004, the demand for custom designed wedding stamps has been steadily growing. Perfect Postage began in March of this year with custom designed 777 wedding stamps as a fun way to showcase invitations for those that were married on July 7, 2007.

Annie Slentz, stamp designer at perfectpostage.com. said “I could not design the stamps quickly enough for the 777 couples – they would sell immediately after becoming available.” As the demand for custom wedding postage grew, Perfect Postage filled the niche for brides to be and wedding planners by offering a full line of wedding correspondence postage.

Wedding postage options include save the date, wedding invitations, bridal showers, engagement announcements, monograms, RSVP and thank you notes. From the first announcement to the thank you notes, brides are no longer limited by Post Office designs.

At perfectpostage.com, brides and wedding planners can browse hundreds and hundreds of wedding stamp designs. These novelty stamps are a great way to introduce your guest to your overall wedding theme whether it’s a beach wedding or a “green” environmentally friendly wedding.

Perfect Postage features elegant designs ranging from a simple rose to personalized initials with artistic backgrounds. Popular wedding phrases include stamps designed with “All you need is Love”, “With this ring” “And the Two Shall Become One.” Wedding cakes, one of the best selling lines, are featured on a wide range of postage. Each stamp can be personalized with the bride and groom’s name, wedding date or initials.

Custom stamps are tailored for each month with a wide range of colors and backgrounds to feature each season. January wedding stamps showcase chocolate brown backgrounds with winter white flowers. June, the most popular month, has a variety of themes including roses, calla lilies, orchids, lace and pearls. A unique June stamp also features the next big wedding date: 06/07/08.

Perfect Postage also offers fun designs for showers, new baby announcements, anniversaries and birthdays. To view the full line of designer stamps, visit perfectpostage.com. As one bride said, “Your invitations will not only get delivered, they’ll get noticed.”

An interesting use of the personalized postage program- Danish artist Asbjorn Lonvig sells postage stamps with his original artwork via Zazzle.
Buy US Postal stamps with Asbjorn Lonvig Art Motifs….

The LA Daily News story about lengthy delays in processing mail in Los Angeles is a serious matter by itself (see Congressman Waxman’s letter requesting a full investigation by the OIG). But it should also serve as yet another reminder to the USPS that the public, the media and the politicians have a very different view of what service means than we sometimes do.

In discussing proposed consolidations, USPS spokespersons have focused on overnight delivery standards, while the APWU has raised a host of other issues, from collection box cutoff times to delivery times. That has allowed the union to argue that all it’s concerned about is the welfare of our customers, not the convenience of its members. Regardless of how you feel about that, you can’t deny that it worked in Rockford.

If Rockford and the other AMP controversies demonstrated a broadened view of ’service’, the LA case show that one piece of paper can drastically narrow the focus. Henry Waxman doesn’t care what LA’s overnight EXFC score was in Quarter 3- he wants to know why there was six day old first class mail in the inventory on May 4, 2006.

Here’s an imaginitive use for customized postage- a stamp to raise money for veteran’s groups working to bring the troops home from Bush’s war in Iraq. Click the stamp to learn more.

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